Microsoft settles the accounts after the fall? Players are blocked by buying games across regions, and the terms and loopholes cause controversy

Mar 09 2025

  When players around the world were still playing "Argentine possession" across the Xbox store, Microsoft suddenly showed off its account ban stick - this wave of operations can be called "fishing law enforcement" in the game industry, and even the senior wool party said it was hard to defend.

A hard-working player recently cried on Twitter that he had just used a VPN to cut into the low-priced area in Argentina to buy a game, and in a blink of an eye, his account was sentenced to "life imprisonment" by Microsoft. The charge of "abuse of cross-regional purchases" in the customer service email directly confused him. After all, after searching through the Xbox community, there is no clause that says "there is a crime to get a fleece". This operation is comparable to cheating in the examination room. As a result, the invigilator took out the Criminal Law.

What's even more magical is that in the Xbox licensing agreement in Taiwan, the cross-regional behavior of the software overturns the VPN is like Schrödinger's cat - neither explicitly allowed nor prohibited in black and white. Microsoft's unique skill of "can block without prohibition" has allowed players around the world to set up a "transnational legal advisory group" overnight, for fear that one day their account will suddenly evaporate.

  The most exciting thing about this absurd drama is the fancy complaints of netizens:

  "Microsoft suggests that Microsoft directly develops the "Geographic Discovery" game, so that you can unlock cross-region purchases"

  "Argentine players now see everyone like plainclothes agents"

  "It turns out that Xbox's strongest anti-plug-up system is actually a clause loophole in the Legal Department"

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  It seems that in the future, you must not only practice the eight languages, but also carry the textbooks of International Law with you. After all, in this magical game world, the real boss may be hidden in the footnotes on line 6 of page 38 of the user agreement.

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